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Image of the Times An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy

Jørgensen, Nils-Johan
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk

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9781041175537
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2025-12-01
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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216 mm
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138 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet
Number of pages
216

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Jørgensen, Nils-Johan

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Ambassador Nils-Johan Jørgensen was educated at the universities of Oslo and Oxford (Norway Scholar at Wadham) and was Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). As a Norwegian career diplomat he served in Brussels, Copenhagen, Harare, Tokyo, Bonn and Dar es Salaam. He retired in 2001. He is the author of books and articles on European integration, international development, Southern Africa and Germany and Japan, including Norge mot Europa? (Norway towards/against Europe?), Copenhagen, 1981, Nytt liv bak taken (A new life behind the haze in Zimbabwe), Oslo, 1989, and Japan og Tyskland. Gjenvinning og makt (Japan and Germany. Restoration and Power), Oslo, 1997. He is also author of Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal, Global Oriental, 2006. Ambassador Nils-Johan Jørgensen was educated at the universities of Oslo and Oxford (Norway Scholar at Wadham) and was Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). As a Norwegian career diplomat he served in Brussels, Copenhagen, Harare, Tokyo, Bonn and Dar es Salaam. He retired in 2001. He is the author of books and articles on European integration, international development, Southern Africa and Germany and Japan, including Norge mot Europa? (Norway towards/against Europe?), Copenhagen, 1981, Nytt liv bak taken (A new life behind the haze in Zimbabwe), Oslo, 1989, and Japan og Tyskland. Gjenvinning og makt (Japan and Germany. Restoration and Power), Oslo, 1997. He is also author of Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal, Global Oriental, 2006.

Image of the Times An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy

Jørgensen, Nils-Johan
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
Jørgensen, Nils-Johan
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
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Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding – leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author’s life experience in the world of diplomacy. It is a rich and fascinating mix of literary idiom, the theatre of the absurd and the comic element of the human condition.
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Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding. Glorious insights and observations provided by author’s life experience in diplomacy. A rich, fascinating mix of literary idiom, theatre of the absurd, comic elements of the human condition.
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Acknowledgements, Induction, Chapter 1: BEN JONSON AND HIS SOURCES, Classical literary sources (Decorum, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the Ridiculous), Medieval Sources: the Morality Play and the Interludes, The Great Chain and Man as Microcosm, Ancient medical theory and Renaissance psychology, The character sketch, Early Humour plays (George Chapman, Henry Porter), Chapter 2: HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION IN THE COMEDIES OF BEN JONSON, In humour, Out of humour, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, Chapter 3: THE INFLUENCE OF JONSON ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMEDY (Richard Brome) (James Shirley) (Thomas Shadwell) (Colley Cibber), The Sons of Ben (Margareth Cavendish) (Aphra Behn) (James Miller) (Oliver Goldsmith) (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Chapter 4: THE INTRUSION OF HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION INTO THE ENGLISH NOVEL (Henry Fielding) (Tobias Smollett), Chapter 5: THE MEANING OF THE COMIC, Chapter 6: NOMADIC HUMOURS, Where did the humours go, Berlin 1900, Fabulous, Hilarious, An ever-closer union, Identity mix-up, Chameleon, An exchange of notes, Visiting card, Holy See, Sisyphean diplomatic challenge, Laughter above, The laughing philosopher, Chapter 7: UNCONSCIOUS REVELATION, Postscript, Bibliography, Index.
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Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding – leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author’s life experience in the world of diplomacy. It is a rich and fascinating mix of literary idiom, the theatre of the absurd and the comic element of the human condition.
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Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding. Glorious insights and observations provided by author’s life experience in diplomacy. A rich, fascinating mix of literary idiom, theatre of the absurd, comic elements of the human condition.
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Acknowledgements, Induction, Chapter 1: BEN JONSON AND HIS SOURCES, Classical literary sources (Decorum, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the Ridiculous), Medieval Sources: the Morality Play and the Interludes, The Great Chain and Man as Microcosm, Ancient medical theory and Renaissance psychology, The character sketch, Early Humour plays (George Chapman, Henry Porter), Chapter 2: HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION IN THE COMEDIES OF BEN JONSON, In humour, Out of humour, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, Chapter 3: THE INFLUENCE OF JONSON ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMEDY (Richard Brome) (James Shirley) (Thomas Shadwell) (Colley Cibber), The Sons of Ben (Margareth Cavendish) (Aphra Behn) (James Miller) (Oliver Goldsmith) (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Chapter 4: THE INTRUSION OF HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION INTO THE ENGLISH NOVEL (Henry Fielding) (Tobias Smollett), Chapter 5: THE MEANING OF THE COMIC, Chapter 6: NOMADIC HUMOURS, Where did the humours go, Berlin 1900, Fabulous, Hilarious, An ever-closer union, Identity mix-up, Chameleon, An exchange of notes, Visiting card, Holy See, Sisyphean diplomatic challenge, Laughter above, The laughing philosopher, Chapter 7: UNCONSCIOUS REVELATION, Postscript, Bibliography, Index.
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Product details

ISBN
9781041175537
Published
2025-12-01
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
216

Author
Jørgensen, Nils-Johan

Biographical note

Ambassador Nils-Johan Jørgensen was educated at the universities of Oslo and Oxford (Norway Scholar at Wadham) and was Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). As a Norwegian career diplomat he served in Brussels, Copenhagen, Harare, Tokyo, Bonn and Dar es Salaam. He retired in 2001. He is the author of books and articles on European integration, international development, Southern Africa and Germany and Japan, including Norge mot Europa? (Norway towards/against Europe?), Copenhagen, 1981, Nytt liv bak taken (A new life behind the haze in Zimbabwe), Oslo, 1989, and Japan og Tyskland. Gjenvinning og makt (Japan and Germany. Restoration and Power), Oslo, 1997. He is also author of Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal, Global Oriental, 2006. Ambassador Nils-Johan Jørgensen was educated at the universities of Oslo and Oxford (Norway Scholar at Wadham) and was Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). As a Norwegian career diplomat he served in Brussels, Copenhagen, Harare, Tokyo, Bonn and Dar es Salaam. He retired in 2001. He is the author of books and articles on European integration, international development, Southern Africa and Germany and Japan, including Norge mot Europa? (Norway towards/against Europe?), Copenhagen, 1981, Nytt liv bak taken (A new life behind the haze in Zimbabwe), Oslo, 1989, and Japan og Tyskland. Gjenvinning og makt (Japan and Germany. Restoration and Power), Oslo, 1997. He is also author of Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal, Global Oriental, 2006.

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